With more and more young people being diagnosed with colorectal cancer, it’s natural to be nervous about the disease. Rates of colorectal cancer in people under 50 have been increasing since the 1990s ...

Some types of cancer, such as cervical, breast, and prostate cancer, are easy to catch early. Tests and screenings exist that help doctors detect these illnesses and take potentially life-saving ...

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Physicians at Gastro of the Rockies urge Colorado residents not to overlook growing trend in early onset cancer. Colon cancer in the past was thought to be ...

For patients with a positive fecal occult blood test in a cohort study, those who did not undergo a follow-up colonoscopy had an increased incidence of colorectal cancer. Those who underwent ...

A Los Angeles mother said her jarring symptoms were dismissed by doctors for years, chalked up to a side effect of childbirth — but they turned out to be signals of colorectal cancer. Marisa Peters, ...